Etruria

Etruria was a region of central Italy in what is now Tuscany, Lazio, and Umbria. It was inhabited by the Etruscans, who established numerous city-states during the ninth century BC, and the Etruscans became a dominant culture in Italy by 650 BC. In 509 BC, the Latins of Rome ousted the Etruscan king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus from power and created the Roman Republic, which would go on to annex all of Etruria by the second century BC. From 1801 to 1807, a Kingdom of Etruria existed as a puppet state of Napoleon I's French Empire.